bishop percy (13 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1882 edition. Blue cloth cover with decoration in black and gilt shows minor wear. Gift inscription in the prelims. Minor foxing on the edges, pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Thus. Firmly bound red boards without a jacket, some scuffing on the corners and on the edges of the spine, scuffing and residue from a removed label on the front paste down, brown marks on the top corner of the first and last pages.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Vol. 3, No. 29. Various paginations. 26 cm. Stapled paper covers. Some soiling to covers, rusting to staples. The Official Organ of the International Philatelic Union. Contains The Philatelic Review of Reviews, a Monthly Resume of Periodical Literature Appertaining to Philately, Vol. 2, No. 5.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Vol. 2, No. 21. Various paginations. 26 cm. Stapled paper covers. Some tears in spine, soiling to covers, rusting to staples. The Official Organ of the International Philatelic Union. Contains The Philatelic Review of Reviews, a Monthly Resume of Periodical Literature Appertaining to Philately, Vol. I, No. 9.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated. Moderate wear at the crown, else near fine in an about very good dust jacket with several large chips, and a small stain on the spine. Contains two poems, possibly his first appearance in print in book form, by Morris Bishop and many others; reproduces two illustrations by Percy Crosby and work by other illustrators.

A New Edition, Edited, with Additional Notes. pp. xxxvi, 452, (viii) of adverts. 8vo. Quarter cloth, boards, spine slightly darkened. Top edge gilt. 3rd edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Slight weakness to inside front hinge.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 147 pages (complete). A contentedly gently aging copy. The boards are contented. They have some scuffing, marks and wear. They are also comforting. Within, the pages have age-related tanning and marks. Nonetheless, the pages are benign, thrilling, assured, generous, more than competent, still boyish. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1859 new edition. Europe. Henry G. Bohn/London. Ex-library good text and beautiful color frontis piece, but missing front marbled board, still good leather spine 578p., back cover is present but just hanging on (8/24 wrapped).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. H D & H G Webb (illustrator). 1st Edition. Bound in paper-covered boards with linen spine. Paper title label on front board. Foxing to boards is the only fault . Little sign of wear externally. Inside, free end papers partially tanned. Clean and no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Octavos; 460, 397, 426 pages, clothbacked boards, tender hinges.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A scarce edition of Bishop Percy's rendition of 'Eger and Grime', a popular medieval poem following the fates of two knights. An uncommon medieval poem, edited from the folio manuscript of Bishop Percy, which was produced in c1650.'Eger and Grime' follows two knights as they battle the presumed-invincible Sir Greysteil.The poem was popular in Scotland in the sixteenth century, and was performed for both James IV and James V.This edition was edited by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding with paper to the boards. Externally, rubbed. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Loss and lifting to the tail of the spine, smaller amount of loss to the head. Small crack to the head of the spine. Light marks to the boards. Wear to the front paste down. Spots to the endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional light handling mark. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Sean Jennett Copy.* 5th Edition, 3 Vols, contemporary calf attractively decorated in gilt. Bound without half-titles, Vol 3 upper hinge tender, bindings lightly scuffed, but an excellent mellow copy. *** Profoundly important ground-breaking collection of early English Poetry : produced with the assistance of Johnson, Shenstone, Garrick, Goldsmith &c : and of enormous influence on Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott and many other Romantic poets. *** Originally published 1765 : this is the first 19thC Edition. Endpapers with attractive 19thC armorial bookplate of a dragon's head holding a severed bleeding hand : and with 20thC calligraphic-style woodcut booklabel of Sean Jennett, the important historian of printing and book production. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.